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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
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I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.
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So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
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I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
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So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
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I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
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I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go! It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.
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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
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Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
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I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.
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It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
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I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
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It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
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Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
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I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.
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